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Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back

Series: Cheeky Dogs
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Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back by Johanna Bell offers a colourful journey through the unique life of a remote community in Northern Territory, Australia. The story explores the daily adventures of the narrator and her encounters with cheeky dogs along the way. With vivid illustrations and engaging storytelling, it provides insight into the diverse cultural landscape and everyday challenges faced by its characters.
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Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back

In this exuberant illustrated memoir, action-packed images and poetic words trace Dion Beasley's fascination with cheeky dogs and his unconventional journey into the world of contemporary art.

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SHORT-LISTED 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award

Every morning

Is it time yet?

Nearly Joie says.

Out of the freezer comes the meat. Bones and sausages and chicken necks. Butcher knife on the bricks, me chopping up.

Be careful! Or you'll cut your finger off.

We can't have that Joie says.

Meet deaf artist, Dion Beasley, and the people he calls family. Dodging road trains by day and giant blue monsters at night, Dion weaves his way through life on an electric scooter, collecting rocks and dogs to make art. In his dreams he sees animals from overseas and his mother's country, Lake Nash, but every morning, without fail, he puts on his favourite socks and gets ready to feed the dogs. Is it time yet?

Dion Beasley and Johanna Bell have collaborated on two other books, Too Many Cheeky Dogs and Go Home, Cheeky Animals, which won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award in 2017.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760528119

Publisher: A&U Children's

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 June 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: A&U Children

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Dion Beasley

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 516g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Dion Beasley lives in Tennant Creek and is well known across the Territory as the artist behind the much loved T-shirt brand, Cheeky Dogs. Dion's formal art career started in 2006 when the first Cheeky Dogs T- shirt line was launched. Since then, his reputation as an accomplished visual artist has grown from strength to strength. Dion's talents are particularly remarkable given he has muscular dystrophy and is profoundly deaf. In 2019 he received the Australia Council National Arts and Disability Award for an Emerging Artist.

Johanna Bell lives in Darwin with her partner, daughter and a backyard full of green tree frogs. Her writing career got off to a bumpy start when she was so busy composing a story in her head that she accidentally drove into the back of a taxi. It was while driving on a bumpy stretch of road outside Alice Springs that the beginnings of the Cheeky Dog books, took shape. Working with Dion has changed the way Johanna sees the world and tells stories. Johanna and Dion's books include Too Many Cheeky Dogs and the CBCA Book of the Year, Go Home Cheeky Animals.

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